October 18th has a lot going on. I am both teaching the drop-in kids cartooning class at the Cartoon Art Museum as well as participating for the 24 Hour Comic Book Day at Comics Outpost (more info here).
The problem? The 24 Hour Comic Book Day event starts at 11 am and I need to be […]

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I will be teaching the Drop-In Cartooning Class this Saturday afternoon, Sept 20, 2008 at the Cartoon Art Museum.
Saturday afternoon cartooning classes meet from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm at the […]

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I taught an animation class July 7-11, 2008 at the Charles Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa CA. The class was a lot of fun and the kids worked really hard.
First off is an animatic (a filmed storyboard) for our own action packed cartoon "Super Surf Knight." I came up with the concept and characters and […]

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Some more silly animation that we did today, the last day of animation class at the Cartoon Art Museum. I will be uploading the final project as well as animation from my class at the Schulz Museum by early next week before I leave for San Diego.

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The weekend supplement for the SF Chronicle did a write up of yours truly and the classes I teach at the Cartoon Art Museum. You can read it on-line HERE or check out the scan of the article below.

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UPDATE: See my writeup in the SF Weekly HERE. I got a photo and everything. Below is a scan from the actual paper. There is one mistake: I do not give lessons in my home. It would be in my studio and I do not have it set up to teach in at this time.

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“I Can’t Draw!”-Cartooning Basics for Grown-Ups
with Brian Kolm, Cartoonist, Teacher and Graphic Designer
Saturday, February 9, 2008  1:00-3:30pm
Cost per individual class: $40; $30 for CAM members.
Due to popular demand, the Cartoon Art Museum is offering another installment in its ongoing series of workshops for aspiring comic artists, writers and fans of all ages. […]

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Yesterday, Saturday December 8th, 2007 was really long…and really fun.
The day started off in Fremont CA at a book signing at SeaWolf Trading Co, a great store that is all pirate stuff. Richard Becker was signing his Graphic Novel Blackbeard along with singer/songwriter Skip Henderson. Richard had some of his Oil Paintings with him as […]

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